The Sunday Leader. I warned you.

I warned you that if you don’t reply to me, I’ll make sure my articles appear within the top ten results for Google searches for you. As of today (10th June 2010), one of my articles is the 10th best Google result for “the sunday leader”… This isn’t going to stop anytime soon.

The Sunday Leader EXPOSED. Is this freedom of speech?

As the scandal surrounding The Sunday Leader continues to unfold after they accused the UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe of corruption for accepting Rs. 48 million from a criminal named Sabir Hussein, without having any documentary evidence whatsoever to account for more than Rs. 47 million of that money, The Sunday Leader has resorted to removing comments I and someone else made on their website thesundayleader.lk asking about it, even though neither of our comments contained any abusive language at all.

On 6th June 2010, the headline of The Sunday Leader was “UNP Leader Got Rs. 48 Mn From One “Donor”.” Commenting on it on their website, I raised the point that even though this man Sabir Hussein (who is believed to be a CRIMINAL by this newspaper) claims that he gave Rs. 48 Mn (USD 456,000) to Ranil Wickremasinghe, even though the newspaper uses his claim as its main headline, according to the article, the documentary evidence they have only accounts for less than 1 million rupees (USD 9000). Even these USD 9000 weren’t directly given to the UNP or to Ranil Wickremasinghe. In my comment, I asked them to explain whether or not they have documentary evidence to account for the rest of the money (i.e. USD 451,000). This comment, and a similar comment some other person made there, have now been deleted.

The fact that they have deleted my comment implies that they do not have any such evidence. The Sunday Leader should either directly claim that they have such documentary evidence and publish photographs of them on their newspaper, or they should publicly apologise to Ranil Wickremasinghe for being the centre of a huge false propaganda storm against him, and to me and the other commenter for shamelessly deleting our comments.

I wish that I can sue you, Sunday Leader. I can’t. But I will not stop until you reply to this. I will set up a new website or a dozen of them if I have to. I will make sure that my articles about you appear among the top ten Google searches for you. I will do all of that, unless you reply.

The Hypocricy of Rajiva Wijesinha

Few days ago, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha wrote an article for transCurrents titled “The permanent prejudices of the establishment: Twenty years after Richard de Zoysa.” In this article he writes, “the methods used during that period to rid the country of what was seen as terror are now all forgotten. This is not only because they occurred two decades and more ago, and our memories are incredibly short. No, it was because the perpetrators of terror in those days are now part of the establishment, and therefore any misdemeanours on their part are naturally skated over” …….. On this I totally agree with him. What he’s saying is completely correct……. But what I can’t believe is the nerve of this man to write such a hypocritical article like this…….. Wijesinha passionately writes about his friendship with Richard, how the two of them courageously fought against the murderous, authoritarian UNP government, and sheds tears for his murdered friend and colleague. Does he really expect us to believe that those tears are real? Does he really think that we won’t think that those tears are just crocodile tears? The kind of tears Wimal Weerawansha sheds for Wijeweera these days?……… Even in this article he writes “we have gone a long way towards improving the situation, but we need to go further.” I ask you, who but a dishonest government propagandist like Rajiva Wijesinha could say something like that? What about Lasantha Wickramatunga who was gunned down in broad daylight? What about the ten other journalists who were murdered in the last few years? What about Pradeep Ekneligoda who’s still gone missing? What about Poddala Jayantha whose legs were broken? Of course these journalist weren’t unbiased. They had their agendas. But so did Richard de Zoysa. And in this country, you have a right to be biased. Well it seems to me, this government Prof. Wijesinha so proudly represents, has worked so hard in the last couple of years to “improve the situation.” Good work professor…….. I ask you, what kind of a man but a hypocrite would shed tears for a man who was murdered, while representing and defending a similar regime which murdered that man? One commenter who called himself Suresh had written, “I think Richard de Zoysa would be turning in his grave at the thought of Rajiva Wijesinha using his memory as a front to whitewash and promote the present regime.” ………. Rajiva is not the only one who has sold his soul. There are many others, such as Wimal Weerawansha and Dayan Jayatillake. People should know that these men, these shameless, dishonest, government propagandists, who’ve sold their souls for money, status, and power, could never be trusted. They’ll say whatever this government wants them to say. They have a right to do so. But don’t let them ruin your country. Don’t let them ruin your future……. visit http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/02/the_permanent_prejudices_of_th.html